Journal

I am proud to present The Part-Time Artist, a project that I’ve been working on for months now. The first part of the project, the book, is currently being edited and will be published in March 2019. Following the publication of the book, I will launch a podcast and a series of workshops on the same theme. In the meantime, [...]

Hi everyone, We are finally in December, which means that this year's NaNoWrimo is over! And what a November it was! I've seen so many of you crushing your goals this month and getting all these first drafts under way! If you took part in the challenge, I hope you acknowledge how much of a [...]

NaNoWriMo is back, and for the fourth time I'm doing it! Now, I have the benefit of 3 previous years of experience, and I thought I would do a quick post with tips that helped me previously. 1. NaNoWriMo is a marathon, not a sprint The easiest part of NaNoWriMo is the beginning. There's the [...]

If you follow me on Twitter, you probably have seen the survey for my book "The Part-Time Artist". In this survey, one of the question was about the biggest problem with having an artistic career and a job-to-pay-the-bills. Many people replied "energy", and how they felt so exhausted after their day job. It meant that [...]

Hi guys, I thought I would do something a little different today. I've been reading a lot lately, thanks to the big haul that I got from YALC 2018, and it made me want to write reviews. I've finished 3 of them so far, and they were all great so they all deserve a shout [...]

If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I have many issues with back pain. I have a herniated disc in my spine, and it is causing pain and loss of mobility. It is not easy to be a writer with back problems, especially when dealing with a full-time job that [...]

Since it's one month until NaNoWriMo, and Inktober has just started, I thought I would talk about a concept that has really helped me improve my productivity as an artist: create every day. There is a lot of advice on the subject everywhere, and they all seem to conflict. Today, I am going to talk [...]

You might already know that I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year. It will be my fourth time, after 3 wins in the past years with fiction stories: Temples of Gold (a fanfiction that I never published) and Healers drafts 1 and 2 (the second one being a total re-write of the first, it felt like [...]

If you follow me on Twitter, you have probably seen my tweet yesterday: I'M DONE!! DRAFT 2 IS FINISHED!!!! #amwriting #novel #107K #holyshit pic.twitter.com/Ut5Rit4pJ2 — Céline Terranova ☕️📚 (@CelineTerranova) September 13, 2018 After ten months and a half, I have finally completed the second draft of my novel Healers. This new draft took me [...]

Lately with my novel Healers I've been hitting a pretty big block: my antagonist doesn't make sense. I was so busy fleshing out my two main characters that I forgot to empathise with my villain. Since I'm rewriting the scenes that lead to the climax, I find that his motivations are not clear at [...]